Lesson Plans:
Unit 2: Social Step-up
Day 1 9/09
Objective: Students will understand fundamental social skills
Lesson: Students will learn and practice social skills.
Activities:
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Journal Write over essential question 1
Team Building Activity
Introduction to Social Skills
Day 2 9/10
Objective: Students will practice fundamental social skills
Lesson: Today’s lesson consists of multiple opportunities for students to practice the social skills we
talked about the previous day.
Activities:
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Journal Free-Write
Team Building Activity
Social Writing Conversation Speed Dating
Day 3 9/11
Objective: Students will practice more advanced social skills
Lesson: The students will expand on the activities from the previous day by increasing the complexity of
the social skills necessary to be successful. The students will have the opportunity to practice what they
have learned in the previous two days.
Activities
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Journal Entries Expand on Tuesdays Free Write
Social cues and conversations speed dating
Social conversations group quiz
Day 4 9/16
Objective: Students will understand the positive and negative uses of social media
Lesson: Social Media plays a large part in each student’s lives. In today’s lesson the students will learn
how social media can influence their lives as well as other people’s lives.
Activities
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Journal Write over essential question 2
How you have been hurt or felt good using social media
Introduce Social Interaction Essay
Introduce Social Media Project
Homework: Work on both Social Interaction Essay and Social Media Project
Day 5 9/17
Objective: Students will work on Social Interaction Essay and Social Media Project
Lesson: Students will have time in class to work on their social interaction essay and their social media
project
Activities:
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Social Interaction Essay
Social Media Project
Homework: Social Interaction Essay due in class the next day
Day 6 9/18
Objective: Students will work together to finish social media project.
Lesson: Students will have time in class to work on Social Media Project as well as expand on essential
question 2 using experiences they have had in the previous days of class.
Activities
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Journal Write over essential question 2 expanded
Work on social media project
Day 7 9/20
Objective: Students will finish up any last minute details of their Social Media Projects and will present
them in class. Students, as a group, will expand on both essential questions.
Lesson: The students will present their projects for the teacher and receive a major grade. Both
essential questions should now be expanded to include experience from the social media project.
Activity:
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Social Media Project
Essential Questions Expanded in journals
Activity: The students will write key words over essential questions